Collection of medical works in Latin and German (Miscellanea Medica VIII)

Collection of six medical works, the first three and the last in Latin, the other in German: with a few reciepts in Latin. Followed by six short plague tracts in Latin.

Written by four different semi-gothic current German hands. Capitals, headings and paragraph marks in red.

Contents

f. 1r Contents list

f. 1v blank

1. ff. 2r-35r Galen, De spermate

f. 2r Incipit liber Galieni de spermate sive liber de duodecim portis. Sperma hominis descendit ex humore ... f. 35r et quibus farmacis debeatur curaru per naturam sui corporis. Explicit liber. G[alieni] de duodecim portis vel mecrotechni [sic] vel liber g(alieni) de spermate.

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2. ff. 36r-49r Galen, De iuvamento anhelitus

f. 36r Incipit liber Galieni de iuvamento anhelitus. Calorem vitalem qui est in corde ... f. 49r ... perfecte degestus fit sanguis rersus cor.

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3. ff. 51r-81v Ricardus Anglicus, De signis, incomplete

f. 51r Incipiunt signa Richardi. Primo de numeratione capitutorum. 1. De signis discertituis temporum morbi ... f. 81v ... in duobus septennis annorum de quibus nihil ad presens. Capitulum xxvii de signis signantibus quando fiat crisis et quando non propter errorem.

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4. ff. 87r-103v Ramon Lull, Ars operatoria, in German

f. 87r Ars operatoria Raymundi lullii cum medicinalibus subtilibus et occultis. Ich raymundus als ich nu vorlangem zesylerde gesin ... f. 103v Item daz ol lichtret alle beswerte glider des menschem. duo gratias. Explicit ars operatoria Maistri Raymundi etc.

5. ff. 104r-106r Albert Birchtel, Tractatus xvi electuariorum, in German

f. 104r Die entlich meynung aller artznye ist gesundtheit ... f. 106r ... und sucht uff ein halben gradus. Explicit tractatus xvi Electuariorum per me Albertum Birchtel de Stutgart.

6. ff. 106v-107r Medical receipts in Latin

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7. ff. 111r-113v Heinrich Hedenreich, Regimen perservativum contra pestem

f. 111r Regimen preservatiuum contra pestilenciam presentem secundum concordanciam doctorum medicine montis pessulani collectum et elaboratum per magistrum heidenricum ... f. 113v ... Et hec est cura preseruativa securior et perfectior omnibus supradictis.

8. ff. 113v-115r Avicenna, Regimen contra epidemiam

f. 113v Regimen et dieta contra epidemiam secundum Avicennam. 4o Canonis fen prima tractatu 4to secundum Rasim 4o almonsoris et decimo eiusdem ... f. 115r ... in areto. Amen.

9. ff. 115r-120v Anonymous, Compendium de epidemia compilatum Parisiis

f. 115r Nota alius tractatus de pestillencia. Corpora sicca habentes seu desiccata ... f. 120v ... de thesauro sue largitatis cuncta feliciter etc. amen.

10. ff. 120v-121v Three plague receipts

f. 120v Item contra pestilenciam. R aloe ... f. 121v ... de nocte de vita meliori rogate.

11. ff. 121v-124r Anonymous, Regimen preservatiuum contra pestem secundum concordantiam medicorum Montis Pessulani

f. 121v Regimen preservatiuum contra pestiliuum secundum concordanciam medicorum montis pussulani et curae Avicenne Circa quod est faciendum ... f. 124r ... et fiat pomum in medio perforatum etc. et sic est finis.

12. ff. 124r-132r Johannes Hartmann von Luzern, Regimen praevisivum a pestilentia

f. 124r Scribit Johannes oris aureati in libro suo ... f. 125v ... Ego igitur Johanes [sic] hartman arcium magistrandus et inter medicine doctors minimus phisicus fellicissime civitatis lucernensis proposui in scriptum redigere previsivum regimen ...f. 132r ... Sed similiter et viris humidis natura et sic est finis. Et sic finitum est regimen previsivum a pestilencia in honorem et laudem omnipotentis dei.

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Late 15th Century

1 volume 133 ff.(last bl.). 4to. 22 1/2 x 15 1/2 cm. Modern half vellum binding.

Purchased 1922.

On the first leaf is an inscription 'In hoc volumine Continentur Galienus de Spermate. Signa Richardi Ars Operatoria Raimundi Theutonica Regimen preseruatiuum Contra pestem. Iste liber est Monasterii Sanctorum Martyrum Alexandri et Theodori in Pttenburra Ordinis Sancti Benedicti augustane dyocesis Et datus est per doctorem Johannem hertlin presbiterum in Augusta Anno domini 1505. pro remedio anime sue. Quocumque tollatur Ottenburra meum satic'. This seems to be by the same hand as that of the receipt of the same date on the verso of the penultimate leaf of MS. No. 780. Below this inscription: 'George Stephens. Brought in Leipzig, June 1854'. This is by the English runic archaeologist [1813-1895] [see the Dictionary of National Biography].

Catalogue description modified in 2014. For original description, see S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

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